Tiki Bar Decor and Culture for the Home

The South Pacific islands are surrounded by culture as much as they are by bodies of water. They give off a special kind of energy that is hard to find. The family like bond which the islanders possess make everyone feel at home whether it be locals or tourists. Their music and dance mixed with their food and drink make the islands such a desirable place to get away. But how do you keep these good vibes around when the vacation is over? Here are some guidelines on how to pump up the pacific ways in your own home and truly embrace the tiki culture.

First and foremost, don’t think that you need twenty foot palm trees to fit through your front door to get that radiant atmosphere inside your house. A few additions and changes should do the trick. The islands are all about sea breeze and fresh air so start by opening your windows.

Next, the islanders are very crafty and practical. They make baskets out of leaves and carvings out of wood. If you want to save money, you can buy cheap tiki carvings and beautiful baskets that you can add to coffee tables or wall shelfs. And as the islanders believe, by having these tikis around your house you will keep out danger and negativity by scaring them away with the tiki’s warrior faces. You could however take up tiki carving or you could go to Tiki Ray for a Custom tiki from Southern California. If you really want to top it off, trade in your housecoat for a lava lava; a traditional floral pattern wrap which both island men and women wear daily.

If you’ve been lucky enough to travel to any of the pacific islands, it’s almost inevitable that you’ve made the Mmm sound after eating their food or taking a sip of their drink. The most common traditional style cooking is through a process called the hungi or umu. This is done by digging a hole in the ground, filling the bottom with volcanic rocks, placing your foiled beef, pork, chicken or fish on top of the rocks and recovering the hole . This cooks their food by trapping in the unbelievable flavor, but obviously can not be done in your home without a massive repair bill. So here’s how you do it in a more user friendly kind of way. Island food is about simplicity, so simply choose your meat, marinate it in a tropical juice or glaze, add a little seasoning and pop it in your oven. You can side it with some traditional island kumara or substitute it with sweet potatoes.

While that’s cooking you can put together a few tropical cocktails. The key to this is coconut and pineapple since these two fruits are island staples. With any combination of these fruits, alcohol and some additional juices, you cannot go wrong. If you hollow out one of the pineapples or coconuts, you can be like the islanders and use that as a cup. Or you can tie it back to the tiki theme and use a very popularized tiki mug. These come in various sizes and are just regular mugs with the tiki inscriptions and carvings that add the perfect touch to your south pacific feel.

While enjoying your delicious meal, fill your house with the sounds of the islands. Although it may be difficult to bring a ukele player into your home for some live music, you can purchase a couple of cds for the same effect. Pacific Island dancing involved moving the body in a way to express the activities of daily life, so get up and shake your hips to your new music, new decoration and enjoy your new authentic tiki cultured home.

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Rockabilly Clothes and Rockabilly Style Music!

Rockabilly style comes from a combination of an era, a feeling, the music, and some sense of magic.  This is not the golden oldies.   This is a forgotten era of music that has not been recorded, and so this rockabilly fashion is a trend that is growing like crazy right now.  Rockabilly clothes, in a sense, come from the mid-1950s era but has been blended quite a bit with today’s edgy look, creating a whole new style.  This style is on the cutting edge of fashion and retro blended.  This style takes the classic elements of fashion and blends it with today’s hottest new trends to create rockabilly fashion.

Beginning with rockabilly clothes requires beginning with the 1950s style trends.  Everything from clothing to hair, makeup to shoes, all of these things will be considered when you are looking to create the rockabilly style. There are a lot of “retro” items that will be useful if you’re looking to achieve this look.  Take a look at the popular hobbies of the 1950s, such as bowling, working on cars, and model rockets.  The type of clothing or other symbolic representations of these hobbies can be a great way to make rockabilly fashion work.  You can find some of these retro items by going to your local thrift shop!

The hair and makeup required to go along with rockabilly clothes for rockabilly style to look its best is also placed in a 1950s setting.  The era was beautifully placed and styled hair, simple, yet bold makeup.  Rockabilly clothing accented with the properly done hair and makeup puts rockabilly fashion together perfectly.  For the ladies, heavy eyeliner, with strongly defined eye shadow and overall eye makeup was the main trick.  Keeping the makeup looking otherwise very natural is key.  This look is impossible to deny when done just right.

Rockabilly clothes for ladies involved dresses the majority of the time.  Consider yourself among the classic Hollywood female icons when you are picking out a dress for rockabilly clothing!  You can rock out this rockabilly style if you go into your vintage or thrift shops and really look for the right shape.  They were form fitting, flattering, simple, and lovely.  The whole look really comes together when you have your hair, makeup, and clothing all in place, minus the makeup of course if you are a guy!  You can be a rockabilly fashion icon with just a few simple and classic looks!

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Who wears short shorts?

Guest post by Elana Kluner

Shorts of the 40's

The rockabilly shorts are a signature staple of the 1940’s pin up girls. We recognize these on the hottest celebrities and models posing for coke ads over harbor bridges, or something of that sort. The shorts spread from a wide variety of fabrics, but never failed to hold the same design and structure. These, most commonly jean, white, or plaid bottoms, were high wasted and quite short in length. They accentuated the ideal female figure of that time by forming tight to the body and showing off the women’s sexy curves and long legs. The men would go wild over these woman and the rockabilly shorts could definitely take the credit for that.

Nowadays, not only do rockabilly style followers adore these shorts but we can also see popular Fashion Designers grabbing inspiration from these 40’s pin ups girls and making them their own. Rockabilly shorts gain raves on the runway and constantly show themselves in modern reality TV shows. Sequined fabrics and extravagant colored patterns are now used for the shorts to update the style for a more appealing and funky effect. Fashion is a repetitive pattern, where we recreate styles from past decades, but we continue to add our own flare and let the designs evolve.

There were a few concerns with the 1940’s rockabilly shorts when they were brought back to life over the past few years. Women complained that the high waisted style with long pockets made their bottoms look flat and “mom-like”.  With all the video girls and celebrities with curvy bottoms, this puts a lot of pressure on females to strut their stuff and

Model:Amalilla, Ink n Iron 2009

make sure that every outfit compliments their figure. Fashion Designers recognized this and solved the problem by making hip height pockets. This allowed for the shorts to keep that 1940’s look, but also giving the effect of a rounded, more voluptuous bottom.

Girls can wear these 21st century rockabilly shorts with heels or boots and add anything on top from a flowing blouse to a tight fitted tank top and a blazer. They can be dressed up or played down, regardless of the pattern, fabric, or style. The shorts celebrate the fabulous female figure and allow women of all shapes and sizes to feel and look sexy in them. Although some pairs of the more couture rockabilly shorts can be pretty expensive, there are still plenty of retail stores that sell them for a reasonable price. And if all else fails, you can always sneak into your mothers closet, take her old pair of high waisted pants, grab a pair of scissors and get to work. After all, rockabilly style is all about fun and creativity.

Ginger Rogers

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• Add Style with a Retro Bowling Shirt

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Being part of a Bowling Team means that you all have to wear the same bowling shirts. If you are part of a bowling team then you should know that sometimes looking uniform and at the same time cool can be challenging. However, with retro bowling shirts this is no longer a problem.

Bowling Shirts can Advertise

Retro bowling shirts can come in a variety of designs which will ensure your team will find something they like and fits the team’s overall sense of style. There’s nothing better than a team looking Sharp AND Cool while they play a rousing game of bowling. They say confidence can boost up anyone’s performance many areas, bowling included. Give your team a viral boost of confidence by making sure you’re not only the best bowlers but the best dressed.

Bowling shirts can be bold to attract attention

Retro Bowling Shirts and rockabilly styled shirts are a must have for any bowlers or even a non-bowler’s wardrobe. Sharply styled retro bowling shirts will make your bowling team stand out, get the attention of everyone in the alley and help them become the favorite of all their fans. Simple but edgy designs combined with colors of either bright or darker tones to fit the look you want will make your bowling team the envy of all other teams.

Being on a bowling team means you want to go bowling and that you love to bowl. If this is the case then ugly bowling shirts are not what you want. Retro style bowling shirts are cool, edgy, and scream that you and your team are serious about the sport. Having a unique fashionable look will say to all around that bowling is not only a lot of fun, but that it is also cool. Bowlers around the country should no longer settle for uncomfortable and embarrassing bowling attire. The retro look is not only made for serious bowlers but it is a popular style you can wear in and out of the bowling alley.

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